[Les Cargill[_4_]]

wrote:
I have a Yamaha keyboard that I connect to the computer
using a USB cable. I appears as its own MIDI device.
I could also connect it via MIDI if I desired, going
into the audio interface that I record with.

Is there any reason to prefer one method over the other?
Are the clocks that control the audio and the MIDI tied
together in some way, or is it just the same as using the
MIDI device through the USB cable?


Thanks,


Toby



I don't actually know, and I don't own any keyboard that uses "MIDI
over USB" to find out ( and that would be specific to that device ) but
what I'd do is:

- Run a 1/4 note click track at fairly fast tempo ( 180 - 240 ) and
record it both ways, multiple times.

- Examine the result.

- If you can't tell, it doesn't matter.

The chance of you having an ostensibly MPU401 equivalent interface
depends on you having PCI, which is largely extinct.

If I run "five-pin-DIN" MIDI off my Scarlett, it's still USB - to the
Scarlett. But at last that way the drivers and hardware run in the same
physical path.

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Les Cargill